If you read my blog entry for this morning you will know that I  had planned to go back to the brook this afternoon and see if I could photograph "my' Kingfisher female last photographed by me on 28th October. With the brook very high and muddy to say the least over the last 51 days, well who knows how the Kingfisher had been coping.  I placed my pop up chair hide down the bank and watched downstream towards some nice perches in front of my fixed hide which is still flooded.  It was cold but I was doing OK. To get to the point, the female Kingfisher…….. certainly the same one that I have been seeing since July, popped on to the perch after an hour and a halves freezing wait, she was on the perch for not even 10 seconds and I snapped off a quick picture of her before she hurried off. It's a blurred picture and not  good  but I am pleased to have got it to prove to myself that she is OK.  It looks as though she had just had a good bath as she was very wet and bedraggled (as you can probably see). There's more to follow I am sure. There was a Grey Wagtail around me very often but just not close enough for a great photo although I took lots that were disappointing.  A little Egret flew past and a snipe flew over my head. Some good prospects if I am prepared to suffer the cold conditions again.

Here is a nice Blue Tit from the garden this morning.